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MARSHALL GARDNER, 0F AURORA, ILLINOIS.

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` )TCITECATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 325,600, dated September 1, 1885.

Application filed February 19, 1885. (No model.)

Zo aZZ whom/t may concern:

Be it known that I, MARSHALL GARDNER, of Aurora, in the county of Kane and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Fastening Devices for the Ends of Coiled Springs; and I do hereby declaro that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

This invention relates to metal fasteners for securing the ends of wire coils, more especially applicable to corsets or other articles of wear in which certain parts, colnmonly known as sections or .gores,77 are rendered elastic by the presence of coiled-Wire springs. Usually such sprin in a corset section are formed of a single coil carried back and forth through a succession of parallel open-ended pockets in the garment. The return-bends of the coil are in this case severally held by the divisions between adjacent pockets, and the free ends of the coil require to be independently and otherwise secured. When fastened by stitching, as was formerly done, they were liable to become detached by continued use of the corset, to avoid which a certain form of clasp was devised by T. H. Ball, and described in Letters Patent No. 298,544, granted to him May 13, 188s. The clasp of said patent was constructed te hook into or engage exteriorly` with the coil near its end, and was provided with a T-head or other suitable provision by which the clasp could be secured to the fabric.

The device which forms the present invention may be regarded as an improvement on the Ball device, the essential difference ccnsisting in a feature or features of construction` by which the fastening may be securely engaged x 'ith the interior of the Wire coil, with the principal advantages of greater convenicnce and expedition in attaching the end of the coil thereto and of greater security after being connected thereby.

To this end myinvention consists in a metal piece of suitable width to enter the open end of the coil, provided Withbackwardly directed barbs adapted to enter between adjacent folds of the coil, and with a T-head or equivalent provision by which the exposed part of the fasteningpieee may be secured to the fabric of the garment.

The invention further consists in a bent or deflected form of the barbed shank or part of the fastening by which the prompt and permanent engagement of the barbs is more certainly insured, as Will be better understood from the following description.

In the drawings, Figure l illustrates a portion of a corset having a spring gore or section of the character above referred to, with a part thereof removed, so as to expose the coiled spring and one of the coil-fasteners con structed and applied in accorda-nce with my invention. Fig. 2 represents one of the improved fasteners on an enlarged scale and applied to an end of the coiled-wire spring,which latter is shown in section. Fig. 3 represents the fastener in perspective and detached.

A represents a fulled gore or section, usually fitted in and stitched to the fabric B, which enters into the structure of a corset or other like article of Wear at the point or points Wh ere it is desirable to provide a flexible and elastic portion.

C represents an elastic coiled wire arranged to form parallel springs by being threaded through parallel opeirended pockets in the fulled section A, and D is the fastener applied at one end of the coilvC.

The gore herein shown is, as usual in this particular kind of manufacture, composed of two pieces, A and A2, of fabric placed together and stitched through and through by a series of parallel lines ot' stitching, so as to form a succession of parallel open-end pockets, A4, Within which the straight portions between the return-bends of the eoiled-wire spring are confined, the said spring having its free ends respectively terminating at the ends of the first and last pockets of the set or series.

The fastener, as shown, comprises a head, D', and a stem or shank, DE, which latter is provided with one or more spurs or barbs, D, and which, as preferably constructed, contains two opposite lateral bends or deflections at or opposite the barbs. The barbs point back- Wardly toward the head, so that while the shank can be readily thrust into the coiledspring from either end oi" the latter, the Withdrawal of the shank from the coil will be pre- IOO vented by the engagement of the barbs between the folds of the Wire forming the coiled- Wire spring. The shank is made of such Width with reference to the interior diameter of the coil and the deflection in the shank is such, as shown, that the coil is itself deiected out of a straight line by the insertion of the fastener, as clearly indicated in Figs. 1 and 2, and by reason of the resiliency of the coil this defiection thereof obviously compels and retains engagement of the latter with the barbs on the fastener-shank.

When the T-forni of head is employed on the fastener said head may, in the construetion of gore above described, simply cross the opening of the pocket, and thus be held in place while holding the coil; or said T or oth er suitable form of head may be sewed or other-- wise fastened to the fabric of the garment.

The fastener may be conveniently and eco nomically stamped out of sheet metal of appropriate thickness; but I do not confine myself tothe flat form thereby produced, since the shank can be round, if preferred.

I claim as my inventionl. The combination, with a wire coil, of a fastener for said coil, constructed with a suitable head and a bent and barbed shank which enters and deflects the end of the coil, substantially as described.

2. The combination, with awire coil, of a fastener' constructed with a suitable head and with a bent shank, the latter being provided with barbs directed toward the head and located on its opposite outer angles, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

3. The combination, with a corset-section provided with one or more pockets, and a coiled-wire spring confined therein, of a fastener constructed With a bent and barbed shank and a head, the bent and barbed shank being fitted into an end of the coiled spring, so as to engage and deflect` the same, and the head being suitably held to the fabric at a point beyond the end of the coiled spring, substantially as set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

M A RSH A LL GARD-NER.

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